Hoboken Terminal (Hoboken, New Jersey)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / Hoboken, New Jersey
 New Jersey Transit (NJT), interesting place, train station, railway terminal
Designed by architect Kenneth M. Murchison in the Beaux-Arts style with structural elements by Guastavino Fireproof Tile Co., the rail and ferry terminal buildings were constructed in 1907 for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The terminal building is on the National Register of Historic Places added in 1973 as the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad and Ferry Terminal. The large main waiting room with its floral and Greek Revival motifs has tiled stained glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The 225-ft original clock tower was dismantled in the early 1950's due to structural and weather damage. A new clock tower was constructed in 2007.

The terminal was among the first true intermodal terminals, combining rail, ferry, streetcar (later, bus; even later, bus on one side and light-rail on the other), and pedestrian facilities in one. The site of the terminal has been used as a landing since the colonial era, accessible via turnpike roads, and later plank roads (namely the Hackensack, the Paterson Plank Road and a spur of the Newark Plank Road). John Stevens, founder of Hoboken and inventor, launched steamboat service in 1811. During the next 100 years cuts or tunnels were constructed through Bergen Hill to terminals on the west bank of the river and the Upper New York Bay. The Bergen Hill Tunnels under Jersey City Heights were opened in 1876 by the Morris and Essex Railroad and later used by Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad (DL&W) and Erie Lackawanna Railway.

Hoboken Terminal was one of several train stations with ferry slips, each belonging to a competing railroad company. It is one of two still standing (the other being the Central Railroad of New Jersey Communipaw Terminal), and the only one still in use.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoboken_Terminal
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Coordinates:   40°44'5"N   74°1'44"W

Comments

  • The old ferry slips are going to be rebuilt, from what I read
  • Is this the Station that was used for location filming in Funny Girl?
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